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Gregory Racz

Hutchin Hill Capital chief legal officer Gregory Racz, 42, has at least one thing in common with hedge fund founding father Alfred Winslow Jones  they both began their careers as journalists. Jones famously worked as a writer and editor for Fortune magazine in the 1940s; Racz, for his part, started out as a rookie reporter for the Wall Street Journal in the early 90s.

After a couple of years, Racz realized the life of a journalist was not for him, and he applied to, and was accepted at, New York University School of Law. In 1999, following his graduation and a one-year clerkship for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, he landed a corporate law job with prestigious Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York.

In 2006 he made the switch to hedge funds, joining New Yorkbased Octavian Advisors as president, COO and general counsel. Three years later, Racz was recruited to Hutchin Hill, the $1.5 billion, high-flying, New Yorkbased multistrategy firm founded by Neil Chriss with the backing of Renaissance Technologies founder James Simons and his family office, Meritage Group.

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